Zurich Citizens News, 1975-11-19, Page 16PAGE 16 - ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ,NOVEMBER 19, 1975
Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
We spent an interesting hour this week with Ron McKay,
principal of the .Hensall Public School hearing about some of
his experiences during a recent visit to the Soviet Union.
McKay along with Bill Weber of Central Huron High School
in Clinton spent three weeks in Russia along with a number of
Canadians attending a sports and physical fitness seminar.
At the last meeting of the Huron County Board of Education,
McKay made the statement that within two or three years a
NHL or WHA team would not be able to win one hockey game
against Russian National competition.
In our latest interview, the first question was "Why do you
think Russians would win every time out?"
The Hensall principal came up with a number of very good
reasons.
First, he lists superior trained coaches. Secondly, the USSR
pours a lot of money into developing good athletes and the top
performers have no financial responsibility to worry about.
Add to this superior athletic facilities, especially indoors
with year round training. The Russians take a scientific ap-
proach to all athletics with each team having its own
pyschologist.
Coaches know how to treat each player on any occasion
under any circumstances which may arise.
All hockcy teams are tested and coaches determine which
players are high risk and which are considered low risk. If a
Russian team is leading by one goal low risk players are used.
These are performers which are known to play a close type of
game.
If a Soviet team finds themselves behind then the high risk
players would be used in an attempt to get back on even terms.
- One of the best known Canadian names in Russia is that of
Phil Esposito. McKay told us the ordinary Russian on the
street would not know who Pierre Trudeau was but they know
all about Esposito.
The Canadian visitors were told the Russians know a major
weakness that Esposito has. But, they would not pass on the
information saying, "We may have to play him again
sometime."
All Russian athletes are continually tested and wired up to
machines to record all readings while in action. Unusual
circumstances are used to test swimmers while in the pool.
They actually swim on the spot without moving. Currents
are created in the pool by propellers and the swimmers tested
in actual conditions without actually moving.
Successful Russian athletes are among the top paid persons
in Russia. The top four professions are listed as athletes,
coaches, professors and engineers.
R on McKay said doctors and lawyers earn the same amount
of money as a bus or taxi driver.
One of the main reasons for the physical fitness of most
Russians is the amount of walking they do. While a few of the
larger buildings have elevators they are very rarely used.
Some of the Canadians were tested under playing conditions
in volleyball. Their efforts on the heighth of the jump and the
time in the area were recorded on a print-out.
Ron McKay, being a very modest fellow didn't say much
about the fact he won one heat in a 100 metre sprint against
Russian competition and was listed as the second fastest in the
entire event.
When any North Americans visit Russia, the residents are
anxious to trade for various items. The most popular things a
Canadian could take along would be bubble gum, blue jeans
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see them until they have a settle-
ment.
Mr. Nixon then asked the Min-
ister if he could use his good
offices to allow the people from
Ottawa to sit down with the neg-
otiating sides here in Toronto. He
said if the situation has to take
its regular course, the classrooms
are going to be closed for a long
period of time,
The Minister of Energy,
Dennis Timbrell said during a
committee debate that the Ont-
ario Government will be forced
to allocate supplies of natural
gas among distributors within
five years. Mr. Timbrell said that
a shortage will occur for "two or
three years" before gas from
fields in northern Canada can be
brought on the market, in 1980
at the earliest.
Bill 4 which requires natural
gas companies to file plans of al-
location for the approval of the
Ontario Energy Board, passed
through the all -party committee
with no trouble.
The Legislation defines six
categories of gas consumers.
The first category, to be given
priority in gas supplies, includes
residences and residential instit-
utions which have no alternative
sources of energy. Small com-
mercial customers using less than
50,00 cubic feet of gas a day,
will come next and industries
particularly depending on natural
gas for their production, such as
steel and glass industries will
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